Canada unveils new speed bump: optical illusion of a child *UPDATED*

What is the world coming to...I would probably not even see it...that's bad.

Officials in West Vancouver, Canada, apparently aren't satisfied with the driver-slowing properties of traditional speed bumps. On Tuesday, the town unveiled a new way to persuade motorists to ease off the gas pedal in the vicinity of the École Pauline Johnson Elementary School: a 2-D image of a child playing, creating the illusion that the approaching driver will soon blast into a child.

According to Discover magazine, the pavement painting appears to rise up as the driver gets closer to it, reaching full 3-D realism at around 100 feet: "Its designers created the image to give drivers who travel at the street's recommended 18 miles per hour (30 km per hour) enough time to stop before hitting Pavement Patty -- acknowledging the spectacle before they continue to safely roll over her."

I applaud their efforts. Sensory adaptation will soon take over and people will become adjusted to this too. It's inevitable. I still, though, appreciate the innovative way our minds play tricks with what our eyes see.

Wow!!! That was a mouth full. Better I drink coffee.

:Canadian F::State of Texas:

"Misunderestimating is only 5/4 th's of the problem"!

"Some choose to hear, few decide to listen".

"Question what you know and know why you question".

"GLP will never be the sane...uhhh...same".

"The markets will determine the fate of government intervention, not government intervening in the market".

...until someone panics and tries to swerve to miss the "kid" and kills themselves by smashing into another vehicle or post or something...

Poor people do poor people things, and rich people do rich people things.

You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.

What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.

The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is the beginning of the end of any nation.

You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it!

when you rob Paul to give to Peter ... ... ... you will always get Peters support!

Good concept, bad implementation. They should change it just be dollar signs $$ popping up. I bet you that people would remember real quick they are in a school zone.

As his vision slowly cleared, the traveler came to the startling realization that he had been sitting by the side of the road, repeatedly hitting himself in the head with his walking staff. He had in fact been doing this for a quarter of a century.

Shaking his head at his own folly, he dusted himself off, set his gaze upon the road up the mountain and once more set off upon his journey.

"That's not a kid, it's one of those 'sidewalk drawings'........FLOOR IT!"

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1094126

Make it a drawing of a teen with his baggy pants hanging down and there won't even be tire marks on the pavement...

Poor people do poor people things, and rich people do rich people things.

You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.

What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.

The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is the beginning of the end of any nation.

You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it!

when you rob Paul to give to Peter ... ... ... you will always get Peters support!

im not convinced this is such a great idea. the boy who cries wolf.. SURE it will stop people dead in thier tracks, who wants to run over a poor little kid!!! but what about when you get them used to the fact that it is just an optical illusion. THEN what happens when there IS a kid ???

im not convinced this is such a great idea. the boy who cries wolf.. SURE it will stop people dead in thier tracks, who wants to run over a poor little kid!!! but what about when you get them used to the fact that it is just an optical illusion. THEN what happens when there IS a kid ???

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 849986

Most drivers here don't seem to care if you are real.

I can't tell you how many times I have had to bang on the hood of a car to prevent it from running me over at an intersection "walk" sign.

They are too busy on their phones, or eating lunch etc. to pay attention to pedestrians.

They'd be better off just painting the ball on the road. This would at least cause an instantaneous scan by the brain and an immediate slowing, or braking, without the potential swerve. You don't know where the child is coming from so you hold steady in the middle of the road.

:Canadian F::State of Texas:

"Misunderestimating is only 5/4 th's of the problem"!

"Some choose to hear, few decide to listen".

"Question what you know and know why you question".

"GLP will never be the sane...uhhh...same".

"The markets will determine the fate of government intervention, not government intervening in the market".